The Lake

05/01/2026

💌 Dear Listeners, we hope you have entered 2026 with a good renewed energy. Our wish for this year is to keep The Lake Radio the special place that it is. And in order to do that, we ask for your help and support ♥️

For more than a decade, The Lake has been a home for sound, music, and storytelling beyond borders and algorithms — a space where voices, field recordings, and sonic collages coexist; where what plays next is always a mystery, even to us. We want to keep being a radio station that covers what most don’t and remain a relevant space for those who listen.

The Lake Radio is free for everyone (with an internet connection) and free of commercials, but keeping The Lake flowing isn’t free. Our main expenses are music rights, rent, and fees for our small editorial team. Much of what we do — the curation, the recording, the mixing, the stories — is powered by many volunteer hours and a deep love for sound.
To keep doing what we love, we ask for your kind help.

Your support — no matter the size — helps us:
• Keep our 24/7 stream alive
• Pay artists and rights holders fairly
• Maintain our studio in Nørrebro, Copenhagen
• Continue sharing new sonic worlds with the community

If you like what you hear, please consider making a donation today. You can support us with a one-time donation or contribute monthly through Patreon and PayPal. If you live in Denmark, you can also donate via MobilePay at 68866.

We are very grateful for all the contributions

13/12/2025

New episode of My House In Your Haus tonight at 20 CET on thelakeradio.com
and and and in your podcast app of choice right this second

"Welcome to the December pod. We're in Copenhagen reminiscing electronic music of the 90s. The housy, the melodic, the emotional, the sassy and all together a pretty warm sounding atmosphere. We start out with wet dreams and dreamlike states of mind. I dream of becoming who I truly am, it seems like we sometimes search forever, ready to go over the edge to find out more until no partial. Searching is also living and obviously once in a while, this living requires an analogue bubblebath and a domina atmosphere. It's soon a new year, and I'm looking forward to meeting the new you with the new me. A lot of new beginnings, a fresh start!"

Your host: Phtalo

12/12/2025

LIVE 16:00-18:00 CET: Office Music

We’re trying out a new format today, live from the studio. As we approach the weekend and wrap up things in our office, we’ve invited two selectors to kick of the oncoming weekend.

16:00 - DJ Povl Flak
17:00 - Martha from Fast Stilling

Tune in from your own friday bar, on your bike ride home or from what other timezone you might find yourself in.

If you are in Copenhagen, join us afterwards at the Organ Sound Art festival in

10/12/2025

09/12/2025

🗞️🎶 Broadcasting today at 20:00 CET:
The Lake Radio x Seismograf: Selected audio papers.
Mark Peter Wright & Denise Risch: “Ocean sense: Listening, technology and the sonic researcher”. An audiopaper published on Seismograf 2025, vol. 33. as a part of the series ‘Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds’.

This audio paper examines listening practices, technologies and cultures within the scientific study of marine ecosystems. It mixes recordings of whale song and ocean sounds with the voices of its co-authors, marine mammal ecologist Dr Denise Risch and artist researcher Dr Mark Peter Wright.

Moving across three phases of argumentation and reflection, the paper questions how underwater knowledge emerges  through tools such as hydrophones, spectrograms and Artificial Intelligence. It situates the ears, bodies and imaginations of researchers to ask what constitutes sonic data when listening to worlds beyond the human.

02/12/2025

🪈 Broadcasting today at 20:00 CET:
Nele Möller - “Alarming calls and whispering winds”: On game-calling instruments, mimicry and intersubjectivity. An audiopaper published on Seismograf 2025, vol. 33. as a part of the series ‘Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds’.

Drawing from environmental semiotics and the onomatopoeic echoes of flowing rivers and rustling leaves, the audio paper urges a release from rigid human perspectives and explores the possibilities of attuning to the subtleties of more-than-human communication. It proposes mimesis and empathetic listening as tools to engage with our surroundings beyond extractivism and as an ambiguous practice that embraces failure to develop intersubjective experience and sonic fictions, while reconnecting with the rhythms and patterns of the more-than-human world.

28/11/2025

Broadcasting at 10:00 CET

New Drops: Jonas Olesen

This months update comes from danish composer and music researcher Jonas Olesen. He’s been around the game for many years with a deep knowledge of early media and pioneering music practices. Most recently he has released the book Else Marie Pade: Complete Electronic Works 1955-2012. The book provides the most comprehensive presentation of Pade’s electronic works to date.

Jonas has granted us nearly 3 hours of music related to his research, his imprint BIN aswell as his own compositional endeavours.

26/11/2025

Broadcasting today at 20:00 CET: SHAPE+ mixtape

Marie Delprat (1991) is a musician whose work merges sound, visual arts, and performance. She explores the interaction between digital and analog media. 

This one-hour mix by Marie Delprat, artist of the SHAPE+ platform, weaves together moments of collaboration, improvisation, and introspection. It features pieces created with David Koch and Masha Ten, including tracks from Marytronics’ debut album Dull Star Doll, alongside excerpts from intimate recording sessions and live encounters. The broadcast closes with a piece from her solo performance Ethereal Realms – all fiction is metaphor, an immersive work exploring identity, transformation, and post-human presence. Moving between distortion and tenderness, emotion and resistance, the mix traces the fragile spaces where connection and desire quietly dissolve.

Marie Delprat is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the EU and Pro Helvetia. 
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25/11/2025

📜🎧Broadcasting today at 20:00 CET:
The Lake Radio x Seismograf: Selected audio papers.
Marie Ertner, Stina Hasse Jørgensen & Signe L. Yndigegn: ‘Voice as infrastructure ‘. An audio paper published on Seismograf 2023, vol. 30. as a part of the series ‘What Sounds Do’.

This audio paper explores the phenomenon of voice-based technology in the smart-home. Through ethnographic interviews we study how older people use voice-based technologies and with what effects for their experiences of the affective environment in their homes. We followed nine people over the age of 65 online and onsite in their private homes in or nearby Copenhagen during the covid lockdown.

The paper makes audible interactions between voices, technologies, and homes, to exemplify some of the infrastructural and affective effects of voice-based technologies. It combine the concept of infrastructure from Science and Technology Studies with a cultural anthropological view on voice. 

18/11/2025

🎼 Broadcasting today at 20:00 CET: The Lake Radio x Seismograf presents selected audio papers.

Ania Mauruschat: “The Heartbeat of the Drum. On the sonic agency of the Inuit Qilaat in the decolonization of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).” An audiopaper published on Seismograf 2023, vol. 30. as a part of the series ‘What Sounds Do’.

For over 4000 years, the Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat, as Greenland is called in Greenlandic, have been living in an intimate relationship with nature in the Arctic. Their knowledge of how to survive under such harsh conditions has been preserved and passed on via sound through the millennia. For the Inuit, storytelling and frame drum singing and dancing have sonic agency. They give them the energy they needed to survive and thrive in the cold. The powers of these sounds and their misconception by missionaries and colonizers as addressing pagan or even evil forces led to the ban of the qilaat, the Inuit frame drum, from churches and public spaces. After the suppression of these sounds for around 300 years, in December 2021 Inuit drum dancing and singing has been inscribed as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. But despite this huge acknowledgment, the fight for the revitalization of the qilaat is far from over, as the case of the Greenlandic ex-priest Markus E. Olsen shows.